Monster Cinema / Barry Keith Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Barry Keith, Author.

Series:

Quick takes.

Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily human, from serial killers like Norman Bates to the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And of course, other movie monsters like demons, ghosts, vampires, and witches emerge from long folklore traditions. Film expert Barry Keith Grant considers what each type of movie monster reveals about what it means to be human and how we regard the world. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of film history, Grant presents us with an eclectic array of monster movies, from Nosferatu to Get Out. As he discovers, although monster movies might claim to be about Them!, they are really about the capacity for horror that lurks within each of us.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

1. Meeting Movie Monsters

2. Human Monsters

3. Natural Monsters

4. Supernatural Monsters

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Works Cited

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-8882-0

OCLC:

1010655796